Best Peeling Poems

Gone, gone, are the gardens I knew
Gone are the springtime roses that grew
I cannot blame the onions for my tears
I cannot blame the springtime, or the summer
Or the snowfalls in the winter
Layer, by layer, the years that flew
have peeled away small points of view…

Nature can...

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There is a truth in you my friend
both heady and unique
that makes my sense of smell
take flight, 
and drives my curiosity.

I carve away voraciously,
cut deep and cut again
til glossy bulb is
ringed layers
of dazzling luminosity.

Sweet orbed bands, 
I plate them out, 
in artful presentation 
gleaming rings...

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PEELING THE VIOLIN
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~ swerving along its waxed wood 
rapturous strains sweep alto mood 
bow’s strings peeling my plight…  
in the unmentionable softness of moonlight. 

holding its...

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Of each year of time.
I know the world is different
than it was a hundred years ago.

The band that played to its death
on the deck of the Titanic, where
is its equivalent today?
As I age I sense a shifting
of assumptions as time proceeds.
Valley girl speech, ridiculed at...

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strewn on the laboring dark much too quenched
by the very ink of a smothering  wind, her layered cry 
out-thumps a mortal bid of wretched reels defining
some plea of farewell, “ go and leave me to dwindle 
in the dust; save yourself if you must!”…...

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You may wonder
how peeling the shells off eggs
makes me smile......
but it does! 

I've been making egg salad sandwiches
and smiling the whole time! 

While I am wrestling with the eggs
trying to get the paper-thin shell 
to come off without removing too much egg.......
I'm reminded of my...

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I see the waves face each other in anger of falling tears
Then they collide into one another to fight
But end up making love in the peace sun

Why cant i make peace in the sun?
Why cant i forgive the forgotten?
Why cant i forget the forgiven?

The hardest...

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the spark is still between us.
electricity, he always comes with lightning.
he knows i can't resist a storm.
 
july is ending, again.
sunburnt, peeling in my bed.
last month's dead cells
sticking to the wall
above the spot i got too mad.
 
lauging with kings,
you bought me a drink
and i...

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The sheer art of peeling a snail is akin to rubbing moth balls in one's eyes. To feel and sense with such ambidextrous wisdom is often not that wise. And of course plain hazardous. One's mental sanity can best be preserved by nodding in agreement...

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Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap

Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, 
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations, 
Sold his yeses to the Goldbricks, and the Mustard Men;
And while he was dipping into the rubbery tides of the...

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I just picked a grapefruit
off an old banana tree
It sliced it up like an orange
and I couldn’t wait to see

A watermelon pattern
seemed to be its outer skin
My mouth it started watering,
I needed to dig in

It tasted like a nectarine,
a lemon and a lime
Perhaps a little...

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It seems so easy 
to feel what is like 
to be a poet, 
trying to peel 
a banana, for a fruity shake....

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He looked me in the face,
And warned me,
Said that what He was about to do,
Was going to really hurt.
I braced myself,
Took a deep breath,
And nodded that I was ready.
I was ready for pain,
But not that amount of pain.

From my finger tips,
He began His job,
Pulling back...

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The savings could social work buy
Yet Defund Police we won't try
That plan seemed too rash
But Trump’s agent Kash
Would trash and defund FBI...

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What I tell my friends if they should ask if I’m okay
Is I’ve been peeling onions ever since you went away
I don’t know what I’m meant to say so I can make them see
That I’ll be peeling onions until you come back to me 

Another...

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